Making and Knowing
A minimal edition of BnF Ms Fr 640 in English Translation

List of Materials

Alum water

Armenian bole

Asphalt

Aspic oil

Azur d’esmail

Azure

Brazilwood

Cardana salt

Ceruse

Cimolee

Clay

Common quarry sand

Crocum ferry

Dilute sal ammoniac

Emeralds

Enamel

Enameling a carnelian

English point

Florence lacquer

Gilding wood

Glass

Gold

Green gum

Green verditer

Huile tingente

Indian laque plate

Iron filings

Lavender spike oil

Lead

Minium

Plaster

Plaster of Paris

Potter's earth

Prunes of Saint Antonin

Quince pulp seed water

Red copper

Relief awls

Rue vinegar

Saltpetre

Sand

Sapphire

Scudegrun

Soot black

Spalt

Spike lavender

St André cross

Steel

Stone alum

Sublimate

Sulfur

Sulphur

Talcum

Tin

Toadstone

Turnipseed oil

Turpentine

Turpentine oil

Turpentine varnish

Venice lake

Water

Wax

Yellow earth

a poix

aes ustum a poix

agate

alabaster

alum

amethysts

ammoniac

anthos

antler

apples

aqua forte

aqua fortis

aquis fortis

arene

arsenic

ash

ashes

asphalt

aspic

aspic oil

azur

azur d’esmail

azure

azure ash

azure enamel

azures

baillard

batture

beryl

bile

bisaube

bismuth

bitumen

black

black graphite

black pitch

black sulphur

black sulphured wax

black wax

black wax mixed with sulphur

bleach

bole

borax

boufain

box wood

bran

brandy

brass

brass wire points

bread

breadcrust

brick

bricks

bronze

burnt English point

butter

calamine

calcinated alabaster

calcinated slate

calcined alabaster

candi sugar

candle wax

canne

canne de batiste

canvas

cardboard

carnelian

carton

cement

cerrusite

ceruse

cerussite

chalk

chalk from Champagne

charcoal

charcoal black

charcoal powder

charcoals

chasing tool

chicken broth

chicken entrail

cimolee

cinnabar

cinnamon

clair

clay

clay base

clay plaster

clear water

cloth

cloth shavings

cloth waste

clous de rosette

coal

coarse salt

codfish skin

cold mold

colle de détrempe

colle de retaille

colle de retailles

colle forte

color dye

colors

cooked plaster

copper

cords of cittern

core molds

cork

cornaline

cotton

couleurs à tourmentine

couleurs à vernis

counters

crocum

crocum ferri

crocum sand

crushed brick

crushed enamel

crushed flour

crushed juniper berries

crystal

cuivre franc

diamond

diamonds

dirt

distemper

distemper glue

distilled vinegar

dittany

doulx latton

dragon's blood

dust

earth

eau de vie

eau-de-vie

ebony

egg white

egg whites

egg yolk

eggs

emeralds

emery

enamel

enilanroc

esbaucher wax

essence of amidin

essence of sal ammoniac

estaim de glace

excrement

fabric

fat earth

feather

feathers

felt

fer blanc

fig tree milk

fig tree wood

fig-tree milk

filings

fine laque platte

fine sand

flour

flour glue

flower

flowers

foam of urine

food

frame

fresh dirt

fullers’ clay

galipot

garlic

garlic juice

gem

gemstones

gilt

glass

glass pane

glass tin

glasse

glue

glue colle de retailles

gold

gold filings

gold leaf

goldsmith's cement

good vinegar

gravel

grease

green wax

grey earth

guindoles doulces

gum

gum ammoniacum

gum amoniacum

gum arabic

gum water

gummed water

hair

half figure

half figure in lead

half of your lead figure which you have oiled

hard wood

hay

heather

hog's fennel

holy water

honey

horn

horse dung

horse manure

horsehair

horsetail hairy

hot urine

huile tingente

ink

iron

iron pillars

iron pins

iron thread

iron wire

jacket

jacket of clay

jasper

juice of lemon

lacquer

lake

lamb tallow

lampblack

lapathum acutum

laque ronde

laquer

lard

larme de mastic

larmes

latten

latten wire

lavender spike oil

lead

lead balls

leaded white

lean earth that artillery founders and bell founders use

leather

leaves

leaves of malva

lettuce

light oil colors

lime

linen

linseed

linseed oil

looking-glass tin

lute

lye

marble

marcasite

marigold

marigold flowers

marrow

marshmallow root

massicot

mastic

meat

medal

melted butter

melted sulphur

melted wax

mercury

metal

milk or bark of a fig tree

millet

millet grains

minced sheep's heart

mine

mineral salt

minium

mold

molds

monk’s-rhubarb

mortar

mud

murky water

musk

mutton flesh

natural sulphur

needle filings

noyau

ocher

oil

oil colors

oil of Jacob

ointment

old flour

olive oil

onions

orange

oriental jacinths

orpiment

oxen manure

oyster shells

painters' distemper glue

paper

parchment

partridge feather

paste

pastel

paternoster beads

pearl

pearls

perfume

pewter

pin filings

pine

pins

pipe

pistolet

pitch

plant

plants

plaster

points

pomace

pomole

porphyry

potter's earth

pounded silver

powder

pumice stone

pure lead

pure tin

purpurine

quicklime

quicksilver

rat hairs

raw plaster

red copper

resin

resin.

rock alum

root of Lapathium acutum maius

rose

rosemary

rosette

rosette copper

rosin

rouge clair

rubies

rue and berries crushed together

saffran

saffron

said water

sal ammoniac

salt

salt from cabbage ashes

salt water

saltpeter

saltpetre

sand

sandarac

sandarac gum

sands

sandstone

sanguine

sap

sapphire

sapphires

satin

scudegrun

shapes of metal

silk

silver

silver filings

silver gilt

silver leaf

silver-gilt

slate

slivers

small molds

smith's salt

smoke

soap

soft tin

solder

soot black

sorrel

spar

sparkling coryal

spike lavender

spike lavender oil

spirits

stavesacre

steel

stick

stone

stone alum

stones

storax

straw

stucco

sublimate

sugar

sulfur

sulphur

taffeta

talc

tallow

tempera

tempered sand

tenuous gold

theriac rue

thread

threads

tin

tinsel

topaz

touchstone

tripoli

tripoli of Venice

turmeric

turpentine

turpentine oil

turpentine varnish

untempered steel

urine

varnish

varnish of sandarac

velvet

venice

verdegris

verdigris

vermilion

vermillion

vert d'azur

vert de vessie

vert-de-gris

vine water

vinegar

vinete

viola

violet

vitriol

walnut oil

walnuts

warm ashes

water

water of alum

water sublimate

wax

wax balls

wax relief

waxed cloth

waxed paper

weld

wet sand

wheat

wheat flour

wheat oil

white

white chalk

white glue

white iron

white lead

white plaster

white stone

white wax

white wine

willow charcoal

wine

wire

woad

wood

woodblocks

wooden

wool

yellow latten

yellow ochre

yolks

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